Groups and Workshops | Counseling and Psychological Services

COVID-19 Updates: CAPS will resume in-person counseling services August 16, 2021.

Remote & Telehealth Services Well-being Resources

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The Group Scoop

Counseling Groups

Groups provide an opportunity to work through a variety of concerns within a person’s life while receiving support, gaining insight, learning and practicing new behaviors, and increasing self-esteem. In group therapy, you have the opportunity to:

Increase your self-awareness and focus energy into aspects of your life you wish to change.
Try out new behaviors and experiment with new ideas.
Express feelings you are hesitant to express and assert yourself in new ways.
Learn from other group members (and group facilitators) by getting feedback and finding out how others perceive you.

All groups are free to students who have paid student fees.

Current Groups

Students must be a current CAPS patient to participate in ongoing sessions. Interested students should call (402) 472-7450.

International Student Support Group

Group facilitator: Xiping (Kylie) Qiu, MS

Come and join a CAPS therapist to talk with other international students at UNL in a group with respect of confidentiality and nonjudgmental space.
Women's Graduate Process Group

Group facilitators: Falesa Ivory-Horton, MA, and Summer Bleich, MA

Develop insight, interpersonal skills, and self-awareness with other women graduate students in this weekly group to discuss issues and life events.

Drop-in Workshops

Any UNL student is welcome to participate in one or all sessions. View the event calendar below to see upcoming sessions.

Assertiveness Training

Workshop facilitator: Mark Lukin, PhD
To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

In this introduction to assertiveness skills, you'll learn how to stand your ground and speak your piece by discussing passive, aggressive and assertive communication styles. Review your ‘assertive rights,’ which may help you find a middle path towards balancing your rights with the rights of others. Download the session handouts: Worksheet | Bill of Rights
Life Transitions

Workshop facilitators: Danielle Parrish, MS and Xiping (Kylie) Qiu, MS
To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Life Transitions can be exciting and good, but also challenging and scary! Join us to learn how to move through these changes with confidence.
Pandemic Resilience

Workshop facilitator: Mark Lukin, PhD
To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Pandemic Resilience acknowledges that the persisting stress of COVID (both in terms of fears of illness, restriction of activities and loss of the sense of normalcy) produces real symptoms in all of us. This stress can also exacerbate current struggles. Pandemic Resilience offers a humanist and existential frame with a Monty Python twist, offering two brief interventions (deep breathing and identity affirmation). Download the session handouts.

Alcohol and Other Drug Programs

Alcohol and Drug Psychoeducation Workshop

Workshop facilitator: Brigham Scott, MS, PsyD
This workshop is offered intermittently throughout the year. To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

This educational workshop teaches students how to avoid negative consequences related to their substance use. Topics covered include: Physiological Effects of Alcohol, Critical Thinking, and Assertiveness Training. This course meets psychoeducation requirements for Diversion.

The Group Scoop

Counseling Groups

Current Groups

Drop-in Workshops

Alcohol and Other Drug Programs

Additional Opportunities

For more information call 402.472.7450 or email Kylie Surmeier.